(CRIME) Narrative and Confessions of Lucretia P Cannon who w

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(CRIME.) Narrative and Confessions of Lucretia P. Cannon, who was Tried, Convicted and Sentenced to be Hung at Georgetown, Delaware. Frontispiece plate, illustrated title page. 8vo, disbound; minor foxing, minor dampstaining, pen mark on page 6. New York, 1841

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Bills itself as "an account of some of the most horrible and shocking murders and daring robberies ever committed by one of the female sex." Lucretia "Patty" Cannon was leader of a gang which kidnapped free African-Americans and sold them into slavery; she was indicted for four murders, but died in her cell before justice could be served. This pamphlet is a sensationalized account of a very real villain. "The earliest published biographical accounts of Patty Cannon"--Woodcock, Eastern Shore of Maryland, 714. Not in McDade or Sabin.